[wintertime]

While I understand the sentiment, this repeated suggestion is a horrible cop-out, a call to surrender our civil liberties and attempt to withdraw behind private fortifications.

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What should parents do? Should they throw their children into the fires of Moloch hoping to put out the flames?

Sorry,,,but children should **not** be used as political foot soldiers sent out to fight an adult's battle in the atheistic, Secular Humanist government indoctrination camps. Neither should children be used a missionaries to bring a little “salt and light” to the government schools.

Finally, the best way to fight the government schools is to work to shut them down. Removing children is one of the most effective ways to do that.

[AndyJackson]

What should parents do? Should they throw their children into the fires of Moloch hoping to put out the flames?

Not at all. Parents must do what they must do, and private school or homeschooling are viable options. But neither of those are realistic options for 90% of the public who are stuck with public schools and so the question for a conservative is, what do we do?

Do we, as this individual do, suggest that this is simply a matter of individual parenting, and while we might express our regrets at the misfortune it is somewhat deserved and not really our concern?

Or, do we express our outrage at the continual erosion of rights, liberties, and in this case fundamental God-given decencies. The individuals who have placed these school administrators in the same category as child molesters got it about right, and I think a private suit against them as individuals for their behavior is just about right. Get them before a jury of their peers and let them decide.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Finally, the best way to fight the government schools is to work to shut them down.

That's never going to happen. Face it.

[robertpaulsen]

"Finally, the best way to fight the government schools is to work to shut them down."

In order to stop this kind of thing from happening again, parents need to get together and tell the school board that it's OK for 13-year-olds to be exchanging drugs with each other. The school has no right to prohibit this private, harmless behavior nor to search any student any time for any reason.

The parents are the taxpayers. They're the employers. They need to let the school know what will not be tolerated by them.

[SkyDancer]

For some parents those gov’t schools are just for babysitting .... but wouldn’t it be great if a lot of kids were pulled out of gov’t schools - think of all the money the schools would loose - shut down, administrators laid off, etc .....